Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 10:08:01 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> To: Edward Napierala <trasz@freebsd.org> Cc: rgrimes@freebsd.org, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r342881 - head/share/skel Message-ID: <201901091808.x09I81S1009440@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <CAFLM3-owSrKwBDCjMA_672fOGZUstjRyi80GvxtcaMOthnJPaQ@mail.gmail.com>
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> ?r., 9 sty 2019 o 16:41 Rodney W. Grimes > <freebsd@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> napisa?(a): > > > > > Author: trasz > > > Date: Wed Jan 9 11:04:27 2019 > > > New Revision: 342881 > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/342881 > > > > > > Log: > > > Make sh(1) recognize the default $HOME. By default /home > > > is a symlink; without this change, when you log in, sh(1) > > > won't realize the current directory (eg '/usr/home/test') > > > is the same as $HOME ('/home/test'). > > > > Arguably it shouldnt know any of that. > > sh(1) needs to know that in order to properly shorten the current > directory path (in prompt) to "~" when you're there. And imho it should not be doing that.... that is what leads to all this other un needed cruft. ~ is a human input shortcut, not a computer output shortcut > > > Or that $Home is ~ either > > I hate that if I "cd home" and there is not a directory > > where I am at called home it takes me to ~/$home,s > > that also has caused a few script debugging to be > > a royal Pita having to force ./$variable to stop > > home from being treated special. > > But none of that seems related to the change above, does it? It is all related as this is outgrowth of trying to make the prompt spit out ~ when you are in $HOME. > All the patch does is: if your current directory is $HOME, but > it's spelled differently, run "cd". The only thing that does, in turn, > is making sh(1) set the $ENV variable, which it uses to track > the current "logical working directory", eg /home/test. It cannot > obtain that information otherwise, because getcwd(3) in that > directory returns its "physical path", eg /usr/home/test. It SHOULD spit out the results of getcwd and not some logical interpretation of variables. Do any OTHER cd's through a symbolic link do such magic? -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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